Vasil Gendov

Born in 1891 in Sliven and trained in theatre in Sofia, then in Vienna, he was the pioneer of cinema in his country: from 1915 to 1937, he wrote, directed, produced and acted in his films with means he found himself. He made the first fiction feature film shot in Bulgaria and, in 1933, the first sound film. He founded trade unions and a production cooperative, left memoirs, and was pushed out of cinema when the state took over the studios in 1948. Most of his films had been lost in the bombing of Sofia; he died in that city in 1970.

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• Short filmБай ГаньоVasil Gendov · 1922Cinema